Pick the 2026 NHL DRAFT Lottery Winner

[diehardbluesfan1]

Maple Leafs! 1st pick!

Because of COURSE

Last year a big market team, and this year the league sweetheart with a winning problem.

Keep telling me a “56B dollar company wouldn’t rig anything”

It wouldn't.. please tell me how Toronto winning the lottery helps the league make more money..

You mean the biggest hockey market in the world? lol.

[Walter Sobchak00]

Don’t care what anybody says…this [nonsense] is rigged..ain’t nobody changing my mind. Feel bad for Canucks fans

That's what I said. Just a couple of days ago and I got flamed for it. There's not one part of this that feels legit.

But but but a huge company wouldn’t help the NHL because they’re too small…..

Or something. [shirt] is rigged. Rigged.

So to review, it was going to be rigged if Chicago won it.. but they dropped 2 spots.. It was going to be rigged if New York won it but they also dropped two spots.. I'm very confused on how the rigging works..

[Frank Barone]

If the balls are rigged, the same ones would come up the second time.

How is the draw process rigged when the balls are clearly bouncing around randomly for 15 seconds. No way to know which ball is in the right position when the draw is done.

Each team is assigned a set of 4 number combos before the drawing is held. If the process above is random, how do they get the right codes to the teams they want.

Let the conspiracy theories go because it's pure paranoia. It's legit and happy they made it live so we can see that it is.

Aliens! The Tri-Lateral Commission! Mayor McCheese!

Mayor McCheese had nothing to do with it.

[sdaltons]

Hopefully Trollin crying rigged is enough to put an end to the rigged nonsense

[Walter Sobchak00]

Maple Leafs! 1st pick!

Because of COURSE

Last year a big market team, and this year the league sweetheart with a winning problem.

Keep telling me a “56B dollar company wouldn’t rig anything”

It wouldn't.. please tell me how Toronto winning the lottery helps the league make more money..

You mean the biggest hockey market in the world? lol.

Yes.. a market that is going to be the biggest with or without him as opposed to a market like San Jose that exploded with Celebrini.. LoL?

[HighStick]

Please somebody explain how a team has a 19% chance at winning if they are represented by 1 ball? Vancouver had the same number of balls in that machine as the Blues did. Looked like every team was represented by 1 ball. How do those percentages work out?

[tfriede2]

Maple Leafs! 1st pick!

Because of COURSE

Last year a big market team, and this year the league sweetheart with a winning problem.

Keep telling me a “56B dollar company wouldn’t rig anything”

It wouldn't.. please tell me how Toronto winning the lottery helps the league make more money..

You mean the biggest hockey market in the world? lol.

Exactly the point - Toronto is going to sell out every game no matter what. The NHL wants to grow its product - ensuring Toronto wins the lottery doesn’t accomplish that at all.

[Rollin' on the River]

Maple Leafs! 1st pick!

Because of COURSE

Last year a big market team, and this year the league sweetheart with a winning problem.

Keep telling me a “56B dollar company wouldn’t rig anything”

It wouldn't.. please tell me how Toronto winning the lottery helps the league make more money..

You mean the biggest hockey market in the world? lol.

Yes.. a market that is going to be the biggest with or without him as opposed to a market like San Jose that exploded with Celebrini.. LoL?

It placates the most volatile fan based currently in the sport. They hired a [fork]ing criminal as a GM and the fans don’t approve, they had to drag Matts Sundin out of Stockholm, just to get them some credibility, and their star player wants the [fork] out.

[Walter Sobchak00]

If the Blues didn't win they should be thrilled San Jose did.. they might be the only team in a position to get a top pick that might entertain trading it.

[Rollin' on the River]

Please somebody explain how a team has a 19% chance at winning if they are represented by 1 ball? Vancouver had the same number of balls in that machine as the Blues did. Looked like every team was represented by 1 ball. How do those percentages work out?

Right. Somebody chalked it up to him raffle ticket. If I don’t have 20% of 14 raffle tickets in the hopper then I don’t have a 20% chance of winning.

[Walter Sobchak00]

Maple Leafs! 1st pick!

Because of COURSE

Last year a big market team, and this year the league sweetheart with a winning problem.

Keep telling me a “56B dollar company wouldn’t rig anything”

It wouldn't.. please tell me how Toronto winning the lottery helps the league make more money..

You mean the biggest hockey market in the world? lol.

Yes.. a market that is going to be the biggest with or without him as opposed to a market like San Jose that exploded with Celebrini.. LoL?

Play Kate’s the most volatile fan based currently in the sport. They hired a [fork]ing criminal as a GM and the fans don’t approve, they had to drag Matts Sundin out of Stockholm, just to get them some credibility, and their star player wants the [fork] out.

How does picking number 1 in a draft that doesn't have a bonafide superstar fix any of those things?

[newfiepicks]

Hoping Viggo Bjorck gets to us.

[tfriede2]

Please somebody explain how a team has a 19% chance at winning if they are represented by 1 ball? Vancouver had the same number of balls in that machine as the Blues did. Looked like every team was represented by 1 ball. How do those percentages work out?

It was already explained to you. Read this thread.

[Walter Sobchak00]

Please somebody explain how a team has a 19% chance at winning if they are represented by 1 ball? Vancouver had the same number of balls in that machine as the Blues did. Looked like every team was represented by 1 ball. How do those percentages work out?

Right. Somebody chalked it up to him raffle ticket. If I don’t have 20% of 14 raffle tickets in the hopper then I don’t have a 20% chance of winning.

Vancouver had 3 balls left at the final draw.

[Lets_Clinch]

Hopefully Trollin crying rigged is enough to put an end to the rigged nonsense

It sure works for me.

[HighStick]

Please somebody explain how a team has a 19% chance at winning if they are represented by 1 ball? Vancouver had the same number of balls in that machine as the Blues did. Looked like every team was represented by 1 ball. How do those percentages work out?

Right. Somebody chalked it up to him raffle ticket. If I don’t have 20% of 14 raffle tickets in the hopper then I don’t have a 20% chance of winning.

Yep. That machine should have had at least 100 balls in it if not more but it had 1 ball per team. I'd just like to know how they came up with those so called percentages.